Adventures in human being : a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum
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Adventures in human being : a grand tour from the cranium to the calcaneum
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Physical Description:
xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Summary:
Drawing on his experiences in medicine, the author blends stories from the clinic with episodes from medical history, philosophy, and literature to describe the body in sickness and in health, in life and in death.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: A note on confidentiality -- Prologue -- Brain -- 1. Neurosurgery of the Soul -- 2. Seizures, Sanctity & Psychiatry -- Head -- 3. Eye: A Renaissance of Vision -- 4. Face: Beautiful Palsy -- 5. Inner Ear: Voodoo & Vertigo -- Chest -- 6. Lung: Breath of Life -- 7. Heart: On Seagull Murmurs, Ebb & Flow -- 8. Breast: Two Views on Healing -- Upper Limb -- 9. Shoulder: Arms & Armour -- 10. Wrist & Hand: Punched, Cut & Crucified -- Abdomen -- 11. Kidney: The Ultimate Gift -- 12. Liver: A Fairy-Tale Ending -- 13. Large Bowel & Rectum: A Magnificent Work of Art -- Pelvis -- 14. Genitalia: Of Making Babies -- 15. Womb: Thresholds of Life & Death -- 16. Afterbirth: Eat It, Burn It, Bury It Under a Tree -- Lower Limb -- 17. Hip: Jacob & the Angel -- 18. Feet & Toes: Footsteps in the Basement -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Sources -- List of Images -- Index.
Publication Info:
New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2015]
©2015
Subject:
| Human physiology |
| Human body |
| Human anatomy |
| Body, Human |
| Anatomy, Human |
SAILS ISBN:
9780465079681